Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:37:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath hangings In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20031014100230.A12215@fw.j-son.org> <006501c392b7$dc780730$200aa8c0@thorin> <3F8BE1B9.3000704@cs.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >Brian Ford wrote: > > > > There will be no ouput unless main calls foo, right? > > > > > > Actually, if the DLL was loaded, there should be output even if foo isn't > > > called... > > > > > Just linking to it causes a load, or is it the first referance? I'm a DLL > > dunce. > > I've just verified that the DLL is loaded even if no functions from it are > called (or variables referenced). FWIW, here's the code I used: > It has been a while since I ran through this stuff, but I did get that output in a bash shell after compiling with -mno-cygwin (I think). > > > > Then, I still get a hang under setup from explorer; no output. > > > > > > This could be because the DLL was not loaded, or because of the two stdio > > > conflicts... Did you compile the DLL with -mno-cygwin? > > > > No. I guess you wanted me too? :) > > I don't know if it matters, frankly. It looks like the DLL is loaded, but > it doesn't load completely. Maybe something that SHLWAPI.DLL is doing on > initialization? > I think it might (again, going on my faulty memory). Does that comment mean you can reproduce this now? I guess you're just talking about email observations, right. > I still suspect the initialization code in SHLWAPI.DLL is doing > something that Cygwin doesn't like. > Maybe, it is just *very* strange. Only setup launched from explorer launched bash launched back tick SHLWAPI base program without input redirection. Ugh...! Any change in the above and the problem goes away. (ie. explorer->setup->bash`SHLWAPI exe # without < /dev/null`). -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/